Britain since the Romans5 : Industrial Revolution and Empire1700-1914
- The Agricultural revolutionThe transport revolutionThe communications revolutionThe revolution in the state and the role of governmentThe continual transformation of social classes
First postage stamp 1840
Gradual improvement of deadly working conditions
1842 Mines Act1844 Factory Act
Other Factory Acts in 1847, 1850, 1856, 1878
workhouse
Victorian workhouse
Match girls strike 1888
Dockers strike 1889
The fight for democracy
1832 The Reform Act
1838 The first Chartist petition
1842 The Chartist General strike
1848 The third chartist petition
1867 The Second Reform Act
1884 The Third reform Act
1787 the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
1807 Abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire
1823 The anti-slavery society
1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire compensation paid to slave owners.
1816 Barbados : Bussas rebellion
1831 Jamaica : Sam Sharpes revoltStatue of Bussa
1857: the Indian mutiny or the first war for Indian independence
Captain Cooks cottage in Melbourne
Wolfe Tone
One of the leaders of the 1798 Irish rebellion
A monument to the Irish famine of the 1850s
Little Tich
Vesta Tilley
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